'Trainspotting 2' Trailer

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Get ready for a big intravenous shot of nostalgia as the Trainspotting sequel, T2 Trainspotting, is coming to cinemas on January 27th next year. Check out the trailer and poster below.

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It’s been over 20 twenty years since the release of Trainspotting and some things do change. The film was responsible for catapulting a then 24-year-old Ewan McGregor to international fame, while it’s director, Danny Boyle, went on to helm 28 Days Later, the Academy Award-winning Slumdog Millionaire, and only the bloody 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.

But watching the trailer for T2 Trainspotting, it seems like Renton and the gang are back to their old antics. “Choose life,” Renton says in the trailer. But this time it’s not a “fucking big television” or “compact disc players” he’s talking about, but Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, reality TV and revenge porn.

Set to the familiar strains of Underworld’s iconic ‘Born Slippy’, we see Renton reunited with Begbie (Robert Carlyle), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and Spud (Ewen Bremner) – and even his once underage, now rather professional looking ex-girlfriend, Diane (Kelly Macdonald). But, of course, he is also reunited with police, local criminals, drugs, Edinburgh, and that old anarchic spirit.

Based on Irvine Walsh’s novel of the same name, the first Trainspotting was set in the late 80s and was in part a comment on drug addiction and poverty in Scotland at the time. T2 Trainspotting takes place 20 years after the first film, so it will be interesting to see what it has to say about how society has moved on.

As Robert Carlyle told NME, T2 Trainspotting “is going to be quite emotional for people. Because the film sort of tells you to think about yourself. You are going to be thinking: 'Fuck. What have I done with my life?’”